She’s making a wish list, and he wants to be on top. From foster kid to trophy wife, Tessa McAllen is about to reinvent herself all over again—and defy every insult her cheating ex-husband ever used against her: Selfish? She’s championing a charity. Stupid? She’s getting her degree. Boring in bed? Kade Vandergriff can help her with that one. When they encounter each other at a singles event held at one of his restaurants, Tessa blurts out that kink is for girls who try too hard, and Kade instantly wants to show this sassy stranger how thrilling a night under his command can be…but when he learns her name, the game changes for both of them. In high school, Tessa was the popular girl who stuttering, awkward Kade fell for. But she chose another. Now, as she eagerly learns lesson after lesson, he’s going to make sure she never forgets him again.

Seven tales of romance, hope, and passion. Even after the roughest night, dawn promises new beginnings.Resisting Desire by Talia HibbertActivist, womanist and journalist Nina Chapman is in love with her brother's best friend. Oops. When her attempt to seduce calm, reliable James Foster backfires, Nina's mortified—but as much as she'd like to avoid him, she can't. No; she literally can't. Because Nina's latest article has made her public enemy number one, and now the man who broke her heart just might be her only protection…Dropped Stitches by Annabeth AlbertWhen activist knitter Bea goes to vote, the last person she expects to run into is her high school crush. The two women forge an unlikely election day connection, but can they see a future beyond the victory party? Parking Lot Cowboy by Rebecca CrowleyMargot Dunn has spent months making up an elaborate fantasy about the tall, silent cowboy who serves as her fellow...

Caught alone on a dark night, one man reflects on his past mistakes as he feels his life quickly coming to an end. Will one young woman be able to save him and herself from an uncertain fate as their paths and purpose become one and the same?This book contains six of the eighteen fairy tales from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889). The stories have been rewritten sentence by sentence to make them accessible to 21st century American children. The 6 stories include Toads and Diamonds, Beauty and the Beast, Snow-white and Rose-red, Why the Sea is Salty, Felicia and the Pot of Carnations, Hansel and Grettel.The great beauty of Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book, originally published in 1889, is that it brought together many different fairy tale traditions. There are stories written by Charles Perrault and Mme d’Aulnoy, collected by the Grimm brothers and Asbjornsen and Moe, and translated from the Arabian Nights. It is a very rich collection of fairy tales.However, the stories are written in a language that is outdated and in places inaccessible to modern American children (and even their parents). To remedy this problem, I have thoroughly edited half of the stories contained in Lang`s book, keeping the stories as intact as possible, while revising every sentence so the stories can once again be read with pleasure by children.

"Turn me on in 50 words or less and I'll follow you home," writes editor and erotica aficionado Alison Tyler about her collection Got a Minute? When it comes to a breathless, clothes-in-a-heap romp or a naughty tease before the elevator doors slide open, who hasn't fantasized about quickies? Readers join in the fun when the lovers in Marie Potoczny's "The Other Side of Sleep" revel in the delicious pause between sleep and waking. Sharon Wachsler's "Perfect" is a love story that happens to include ropes, rough play, and butterfly pillows. Proving that a slow hand is not always better, these intense encounters deliver scintillating thrills in as little as 75 words. Fast and ferocious, the 60 short and spicy stories in Got a Minute? rev readers' motors and leave them aching for more. When it comes to hot sex, who doesn't have a minute?

With her stunning white blonde hair, Cassandra Juliet Winthrop was always the belle of the ball in the Colonies, so much so that she began to think that it was a bit of a bore. But a tour of the Continent, now that would be exciting! Her indulgent father acquiesced with surprising ease, and she found herself, one night, at a splendid gala in Paris fairly that wreaked of European elegance. There was one fly in her ointment – one man that refused to fall into line with the rest of her easy conquests, and for a reason she couldn’t possibly realize until, in the wee hours of the morning as the dance is ending, the very same man, Count Victor Andreiv Kaspersky Salkov, kidnapped her. Gone were the parties and balls and galas and dances, and in their place was a daily regimen of punishment, degradation and complete and utter humiliation – all for one purpose, and one purpose only: to get – and preferably keep – her pregnant, constantly forced to produce an ongoing line of white haired babies, barely allowed to recover from one birth before her mate and match was on her to breed another... and another... and another...